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In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

In the context of lossy compression, Blau & Michaeli (2019) adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the classical rate-distortion tradeoff. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 George Zhang , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a memoryless source model in the asymptotic limit of large block-lengths. The perception measure is based on a divergence between the distributions of the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti , Wei Yu

Blau and Michaeli recently introduced a novel concept for inverse problems of signal processing, that is, the perception-distortion tradeoff. We introduce their tradeoff into the rate distortion theory of lossy source coding in information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

Realism constraints (or constraints on perceptual quality) have received considerable recent attention within the context of lossy compression, particularly of images. Theoretical studies of lossy compression indicate that high-rate common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

Blau and Michaeli recently introduced a novel concept for inverse problems of signal processing, that is, the perception-distortion tradeoff. We introduce their tradeoff into the rate distortion theory of variable-length lossy source coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

In lossy compression, the classical tradeoff between compression rate and reconstruction distortion has traditionally guided algorithm design. However, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced a generalized framework, known as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Nam Nguyen

This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a Gaussian vector source coding problem where the goal is to compress the multi-component source subject to distortion and perception constraints. Specifically, the RDP…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jingjing Qian , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti , Wei Yu , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, the existence of a trade-off between the rate and the perceptual quality (realism) has been brought to light, where the realism is measured by the closeness of the output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

The rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff characterizes the fundamental limits of lossy compression by jointly considering bitrate, reconstruction fidelity, and perceptual quality. While recent neural compression methods have improved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yuhan Wang , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Recent advances in machine learning-aided lossy compression are incorporating perceptual fidelity into the rate-distortion theory. In this paper, we study the rate-distortion-perception trade-off when the perceptual quality is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xueyan Niu , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Wei Han

Whenever inspected by humans, reconstructed signals should not be distinguished from real ones. Typically, such a high perceptual quality comes at the price of high reconstruction error, and vice versa. We study this distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Dror Freirich , Nir Weinberger , Ron Meir

The rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF; Blau and Michaeli, 2019) has emerged as a useful tool for thinking about realism and distortion of reconstructions in lossy compression. Unlike the rate-distortion function, however, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Lucas Theis , Aaron B. Wagner

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, the existence of a trade-off between the rate and the perceptual quality has been brought to light, where the perception is measured by the closeness of the output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yassine Hamdi , Deniz Gündüz

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, existence of a trade-off between the rate and perceptual quality has been brought to light, where the perceptual quality is measured by the closeness of the output and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

We revisit the Gray-Wyner lossy source coding problem and derive the first-order asymptotic optimal rate-distortion-perception region when additional perception constraints are imposed on reproduced source sequences. The optimal trade-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yu Yang , Yingxin Zhang , Weijie Yuan , Lin Zhou

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

We extend the Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) framework to the R\'enyi information-theoretic regime, utilizing Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information to characterize the fundamental limits under distortion and perception constraints. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Wei , Marios Kountouris
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